EP2607920B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour estimer une distance internodale entre des noeuds disposés le long d'antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour estimer une distance internodale entre des noeuds disposés le long d'antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées Download PDF

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EP2607920B1
EP2607920B1 EP11306697.1A EP11306697A EP2607920B1 EP 2607920 B1 EP2607920 B1 EP 2607920B1 EP 11306697 A EP11306697 A EP 11306697A EP 2607920 B1 EP2607920 B1 EP 2607920B1
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  • the field of the invention is the acquisition of geophysics data. It deals with the equipments required in order to study the sea bed and its sediment layers properties.
  • the invention pertains to a technique for estimating an inter-node distance in a network of acoustic nodes arranged along towed acoustic linear antennas.
  • the invention can be applied notably to the oil prospecting industry using seismic method (sea oil survey), but can be of interest for any other field which requires a system performing geophysics data acquisition in a marine environment.
  • the operations of acquiring seismic data on site conventionally use networks of sensors (here below designated as “hydrophones” with regard to the acquisition of data in a marine environment).
  • the hydrophones are distributed along cables in order to form linear acoustic antennas normally referred to as “streamers” or “seismic streamers”.
  • streamers linear acoustic antennas normally referred to as “streamers” or “seismic streamers”.
  • FIG 1 the network of seismic streamers 20a to 20e is towed by a seismic vessel 21.
  • the hydrophones are referenced 16 in figure 2 , which illustrates in detail the block referenced C in figure 1 (i.e. a portion of the streamer referenced 20a).
  • the seismic method is based on analysis of reflected seismic waves.
  • one or more submerged seismic sources are activated in order to propagate omni-directional seismic wave trains.
  • the pressure wave generated by the seismic source passes through the column of water and insonifies the different layers of the sea bed.
  • Part of the seismic waves (i.e. acoustic signals) reflected are then detected by the hydrophones distributed over the length of the seismic streamers.
  • These acoustic signals are processed and retransmitted by telemetry from the seismic streamers to the operator station situated on the seismic vessel, where the processing of the raw data is carried out.
  • a well-known problem in this context is the localization of the seismic streamers. Indeed, it is important to precisely locate the streamers, in particular for:
  • each bird 10 comprises a body 11 equipped with motorized pivoting wings 12 (or more generally means of mechanical moving) making it possible to modify the position of the streamers laterally between them (this is referred to a horizontal driving) and drive the streamers in immersion (this is referred to a vertical driving).
  • acoustic nodes are distributed along the streamers. These acoustic nodes are represented by hatched squares, referenced 14, in figures 1 and 2 . As shown in figure 1 , some acoustic nodes 14 of the network are associated with a bird 10 (case of figure 2 ), and other are not.
  • the acoustic nodes 14 use underwater acoustic communication means, hereafter referred to as electro-acoustic transducers, allowing to estimate the distances between acoustic nodes (named here below “inter-node distances"). More specifically, these transducers are transmitters and receivers of acoustic signals, which can be used to estimate an inter-node distance separating two acoustic nodes (acting as sender node and receiver node respectively) situated on two different streamers (which may be adjacent or not) as a function of an acoustic signal propagation duration measured between these two nodes (i.e. a travel time of the acoustic signal from the sender node to the receiver node). From the acoustic network, this thereby forms a mesh of inter-node distances allowing to know precise horizontal positioning of all the streamers.
  • electro-acoustic transducers are transmitters and receivers of acoustic signals, which can be used to
  • Transducer here is understood to mean either a single electro-acoustic device consisting of a transceiver (emitter/receiver) of acoustic signals, or a combination of a sender device (e.g. a pinger) and a receiver device (e.g a pressure particle sensor (hydrophone) or a motion particle sensor (accelerometer, geophone%)).
  • a sender device e.g. a pinger
  • a receiver device e.g a pressure particle sensor (hydrophone) or a motion particle sensor (accelerometer, geophone
  • each acoustic node comprises an electro-acoustic transducer enabling it to behave alternately as a sender node and a receiver node (for the transmission and the reception, respectively, of acoustic signals).
  • a first set of nodes act only as sender nodes and a second set of nodes act only as receiver nodes.
  • a third set of nodes (each acting alternately as a sender node and a receiver node) can also be used in combination with the first and second sets of nodes.
  • Computation of an inter-node distance can be carried out, either by the navigation system (for positioning the set of hydrophones), or the node manager system (for providing useful information to the birds for horizontal driving), or the acoustic nodes themselves (in case they are equipped with electronics intended for this computation).
  • the acoustic nodes are further synchronized by the node manager system through a wire communication bus placed within the streamers.
  • the sound speed c which is used is supposed to be constant in the vertical plane. However, in practice this will not be the case.
  • the shape of the sound speed profile in the area where the seismic survey is performed can modify the acoustic paths of sound.
  • the sound will not follow a straight line (as supposed in the inter-node distance estimation method described above) but a curved ray path due to the refraction phenomena (according to Snell Descartes laws). Indeed, in a non uniform medium the sound rays can be bended (refracted) due to the change of the sound speed and more precisely to its gradient.
  • the wavefronts of the sound are refracted toward the layer where the sound speed is lower, the refraction will be more pronounced if the change in the sound speed is rapid.
  • Document GB 2 443 562 A discloses a method for determining the inter-node distance of two sensors on a towed streamer, where the local sound speed is determined by a sound velocity sensor.
  • Figures 3 to 5 illustrate the influence of a sound speed gradient in the channel.
  • the left part presents a sound speed profile and the right part presents the corresponding ray paths, obtained with a ray path tracing method for a 10° aperture launch, and a 300m-distance.
  • Those figures enable to compare the ray paths followed by the sound in two mediums.
  • the first medium ( figure 5 ) is a 50m depth water column with a constant sound speed and the second medium ( figures 3 and 4 ) is a medium constituted with a 50m water column and a 25m depth minimum of sound speed with a constant gradient.
  • the depth of the source is 25m in figures 3 and 5 , 30m in figure 4 .
  • the sound will follow straight paths in the first case ( figure 5 ), and strongly curved paths in the second case, depending on depth ( figures 3 and 4 ).
  • the distance along the path will be more important than in the straight line case.
  • the inter-node distance obtained with the previous method (assuming a constant sound speed profile) will be over estimated which is a synonym of a lack of localization precision or a bias in the localization result (the localization of the streamers being based on the inter-node distances obtained with a plurality of couples of acoustic nodes).
  • the sound speed value which is used, in the known methods, to estimate the inter-node distance is supposed to be constant in the vertical plane, which is usually a wrong assumption.
  • the environmental conditions temperature, pressure or salinity of water
  • the shape of the sound speed profile can thus imply refraction phenomena which curves the ray paths.
  • a 0.5ms-1 error (classical value for a sound velocimeter) is equivalent to a 10cm error on the inter-node distance.
  • the direct path is illustrated in the right part of figure 6 (obtained with a ray path tracing method for a 10° aperture launch, and a 300m-distance).
  • the direct path length is equal to 300.70m, which correspond to a 70cm error on the inter-node distance when assuming a constant sound speed of 1482ms-1 (at 15m-depth) and a real distance of 300m.
  • the ray path from node A to node B and the one from node B to node A can be different and so the travel time can be different depending on the way of the signal.
  • a typical sound speed profile has three parts corresponding to the three layers of the water column: the surface layer (mixed layer), the main thermocline and the deep isothermal layer.
  • the mixed layer can be few meters thick, but can also extend to several dozens of meter (depending on seasons, sun, sea state, currents).
  • the mixed layer can disappear in colder oceans.
  • the sound speed is almost constant for the mixed layer, but not for the main thermocline and the deep isothermal layer.
  • the tendency in the field of seismic data acquisition is to increase the depth of the streamer which can place the streamer (and the acoustic nodes) under the mixed layer (and therefore in the main thermocline) and thus increase the refraction phenomena. As detailed above, this refraction phenomena causes an error if the classical formula is used to estimate the inter-node distance.
  • the invention in at least one embodiment, is aimed especially at overcoming these different drawbacks of the prior art.
  • a particular embodiment of the invention proposes a method for estimating an inter-node distance between a sender node and a receiver node belonging to a network comprising a plurality of nodes arranged along towed acoustic linear antennas, an acoustic signal being transmitted from the sender node to the receiver node through an underwater acoustic channel.
  • the method comprises a step of estimating the inter-node distance as a function of an estimate of a sound speed profile of the underwater acoustic channel, said sound speed profile depending on depth.
  • This particular embodiment relies on a wholly novel and inventive because it takes into account the environment properties, represented especially by the sound speed profile of the underwater acoustic channel (between the sender node and the receiver node).
  • this technique for estimating the inter-node distance is more precise than the known solution discussed above, and eliminates (or at least reduce) the potential bias induced by the refraction phenomena.
  • Said step of estimating the inter-node distance comprises steps of:
  • This first implementation involves determining an approximated inter-node distance according to the known method (assuming a constant sound speed in the channel), and then to correct the error on this approximated inter-node distance.
  • the error is determined using a sound propagation model (e.g. ray theory model) and, among other assumptions, the estimate of the sound speed profile of the underwater acoustic channel.
  • the length of the arc path provided by the step of estimating the sound propagation (whose end is positioned, straight line, at the approximated inter-node distance from the sender node) is approximately equal to the length of the real arc path (whose end is positioned, straight line, at the true inter-node distance from the sender node).
  • the step of obtaining the estimate of the sound speed profile is carried out using at least one method belonging to the group comprising:
  • the estimate of the sound speed profile is obtained in a conventional and simple manner.
  • the step of obtaining the estimate of the sound speed profile is carried out with a method of indirect measuring, using an inversion process which extracts the estimate of the sound speed profile from at least one distorted acoustic signal resulting from the transmission of an acoustic signal between a couple of nodes through said underwater acoustic channel.
  • the estimate of the sound speed profile is obtained using an inversion process. This is more accurate than consulting databases, without requiring measurement device and corresponds to the sound speed profile between the two nodes of the considered couple of nodes.
  • said inversion process extracts the estimate of the sound speed profile from a distorted acoustic signal resulting from the transmission of said acoustic signal between said sender node and said receiver node through said underwater acoustic channel.
  • At least two iterations of said inversion process are executed exploiting a spatial diversity, using at least two different couples of nodes, and/or a time diversity, using a same couple of nodes at at least two different instants, each iteration providing an intermediate estimate of the sound speed profile, and the step of obtaining the estimate of the sound speed profile comprises a step of combining the intermediate estimates of the sound speed profile to obtain a final estimate of the sound speed profile.
  • said at least two different couples of nodes have different depths, a first and a second couple of nodes being defined as having different depths if a sender node of the first couple has not the same depth as a sender node of the second couple, and/or if a receiver node of the first couple has not the same depth as a receiver node of the second couple.
  • said step of estimating the inter-node distance comprises a step of using an inversion process which extracts jointly an estimate of the sound speed profile and an estimate of the inter-node distance, from a distorted acoustic signal resulting from the transmission of said acoustic signal between said sender node and said receiver node through said underwater acoustic channel.
  • said step of estimating the inter-node distance comprises steps of:
  • the estimate of inter-node distance are more precise.
  • the second example third is less expensive than the first example in terms of computation time.
  • the step of obtaining the estimate of the sound speed profile is carried out using at least one method belonging to the group comprising:
  • the estimate of the sound speed profile is obtained in a conventional and simple manner.
  • said step of estimating the inter-node distance comprises steps of:
  • the inversion process (which extracts the estimate of the inter-node distance) is initialized with an approximated inter-node distance determined simply (according to the known method, assuming a constant sound speed in the channel).
  • the method is implemented by said receiver node or a centralized system.
  • the invention pertains to a computer program product comprising program code instructions for implementing the above-mentioned method (in any of its different embodiments) when said program is executed on a computer or a processor.
  • the invention pertains to a non-transitory computer-readable carrier medium, storing a program which, when executed by a computer or a processor, causes the computer or the processor to carry out the above-mentioned method (in any of its different embodiments).
  • the invention proposes a device for estimating an inter-node distance between a sender node and a receiver node belonging to a network comprising a plurality of nodes arranged along towed acoustic linear antennas, an acoustic signal being transmitted from the sender node to the receiver node through an underwater acoustic channel, characterized in that the device comprises means for estimating the inter-node distance as a function of an estimate of a sound speed profile of the underwater acoustic channel, said sound speed profile depending on depth.
  • step 81 the sender node A transmits an acoustic signal to the receiver node B, through a underwater acoustic channel
  • step 82 the receiver node B receives the acoustic signal.
  • the step 83 consists in measuring the travel time t AB between the sender node A and the receiver node B.
  • step 84 knowing the immersion depths of nodes A and B (z A and z B respectively, which can be different from each other), the approximated inter-node distance D AB (see above), and an estimate of the sound speed profile C(z), we estimate the sound propagation between nodes A and B (using a sound propagation model, e.g. ray theory model ; the corresponding method is called "ray path tracing method"), i.e. we estimate the shape (which is an arc) of the real path between nodes A and B (the length L AB of this arc is estimated in step 85).
  • a sound propagation model e.g. ray theory model ; the corresponding method is called "ray path tracing method”
  • step 85 the length L AB of the arc (real path) between nodes A and B is estimated.
  • Figure 11 is a flowchart of an inversion process providing an estimate of the sound speed profile C(z), to be used as input in the first embodiment of figure 8 .
  • a sender node (e.g. node A or a node close to node A) transmits an acoustic signal to the receiver node (e.g. node B or a node close to node B), through the underwater acoustic channel.
  • the receiver node e.g. node B or a node close to node B
  • the receiver node receives the acoustic signal, as a distorted received signal depending on the channel properties. Indeed, the signal emitted by the nodes will undergo reflections on the ocean surface and on the seafloor, or refractions due to sound speed gradient.
  • step 113 we obtain a set of observables (data) from the distorted received signal.
  • the observables can be the impulse response of the channel between the two nodes.
  • MMIR matched impulse response process
  • step 114 the inversion process can be initialized with an estimate obtained by consulting worldwide sound speed profile databases or by using a method of direct measuring (see details above).
  • the different nodes are positioned at different depths, the vertical water column sampling obtained gives better results for the sound speed profile estimation.
  • the different couples of nodes have different depths.
  • a first and a second couple of nodes have different depths if a sender node of the first couple has not the same depth as a sender node of the second couple, and/or if a receiver node of the first couple has not the same depth as a receiver node of the second couple.
  • step 91 the sender node A transmits an acoustic signal to the receiver node B, through an underwater acoustic channel (i.e. a column of water).
  • an underwater acoustic channel i.e. a column of water.
  • the receiver node B receives the acoustic signal, as a distorted received signal depending on the channel properties. Indeed, the signal emitted by the nodes will undergo reflections on the ocean surface and on the seafloor, or refractions due to sound speed gradient.
  • step 93 we obtain a set of observables (data) from the distorted received signal.
  • the observables can be the impulse response of the channel between the two nodes.
  • the observables are used to perform an inversion of the environment properties and especially an estimate of the sound speed profile and jointly an estimate of the inter-node distance L AB .
  • using the observables extracted from the distorted received signal and matching them to some obtained with a propagation model allows to obtain jointly an estimate of the sound speed profile and an estimate of the inter-node distance.
  • MIR matched impulse response process
  • step 101 the sender node A transmits an acoustic signal to the receiver node B, through an underwater acoustic channel (i.e. a column of water).
  • an underwater acoustic channel i.e. a column of water.
  • the receiver node B receives the acoustic signal, as a distorted received signal depending on the channel properties. Indeed, the signal emitted by the nodes will undergo reflections on the ocean surface and on the seafloor, or refractions due to sound speed gradient.
  • step 103 we obtain a set of observables (data) from the distorted received signal.
  • the observables can be the impulse response of the channel between the two nodes.
  • the observables are used to perform an inversion of the environment properties and especially an estimate of the inter-node distance, assuming the sound speed profile is known (e.g. by consulting worldwide sound speed profile databases or by using a method of direct measuring - see details above).
  • the sound speed profile is known (e.g. by consulting worldwide sound speed profile databases or by using a method of direct measuring - see details above).
  • using the observables extracted from the distorted received signal and matching them to a propagation model allows to obtain an estimate of the inter-node distance.
  • MMIR matched impulse response process
  • step 104 the inversion process can be initialized with the approximated inter-node distance D AB (determined as described for the first embodiment illustrated in figure 1 ), i.e. an inter-node distance estimated assuming a constant sound speed.
  • FIG 12 we present the simplified structure of an estimation device 120 (for estimating an inter-node distance) according to a particular embodiment of the invention.
  • the estimation device 120 can be an acoustic node (such as the receiver node B in the example above), the node manager system or the navigation system. It comprises a read-only memory (ROM) 123, a random access memory (RAM) 121 and a processor 122.
  • the read-only memory 123 (non transitory computer-readable carrier medium) stores executable program code instructions, which they are executed by the processor 122 enable implementation of the technique of the invention (e.g. the steps 82 to 87 of figure 8 ; or the steps 92 to 94 of figure 9 ; or the steps 102 to 104 of figure 10 ).
  • the aforementioned program code instructions are transferred from the read-only memory 123 to the random access memory 121 so as to be executed by the processor 122.
  • the random access memory 121 likewise includes registers for storing the variables and parameters required for this execution.
  • the processor 122 receives the following information (referenced 124a to 124e respectively):
  • the processor 122 delivers an estimation of the inter-node distance 125.

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  1. Procédé d'estimation d'une distance inter-nodale entre un noeud émetteur (A) et un noeud récepteur (B) appartenant à un réseau comprenant une pluralité de noeuds disposés le long d'antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées (20a-20e), ledit noeud émetteur (A) et ledit noeud récepteur (B) étant situés sur deux antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées (20a-20e) différentes, un signal acoustique étant transmis du noeud émetteur vers le noeud récepteur par l'intermédiaire d'un canal acoustique subaquatique, caractérisé en ce que le procédé comprend une étape (83-87 ; 93-94 ; 103-104) d'estimation de la distance inter-nodale en fonction d'une estimation d'un profil de vitesse de son du canal acoustique subaquatique, ledit profil de vitesse de son dépendant de la profondeur, ladite étape d'estimation de la distance inter-nodale comprenant les étapes suivantes :
    - obtention (83, 84) d'un temps de déplacement du signal acoustique du noeud émetteur vers le noeud récepteur, de profondeurs d'immersion du noeud émetteur et du noeud récepteur, d'une vitesse du son à la profondeur d'immersion du noeud émetteur et de ladite estimation du profil de vitesse du son ;
    - détermination (84) d'une distance inter-nodale approximative (DAB) correspondant à une trajectoire en ligne droite entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur, en fonction du temps de déplacement et de la vitesse du son à la profondeur d'immersion du noeud émetteur ;
    - estimation (84) de la propagation du son entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur à l'aide d'un modèle de propagation du son et en connaissant les profondeurs d'immersion du noeud émetteur et du noeud récepteur, de la distance inter-nodale approximative et de l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son, ladite étape d'estimation de la propagation du son fournissant une longueur d'arc (LAB) d'une trajectoire en arc de cercle entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur ; et
    - la détermination (86-87) d'une estimation de la distance inter-nodale (D'AB) en tant que différence entre ladite distance inter-nodale approximative et d'une erreur d'estimation de distance définie comme la différence entre ladite longueur d'arc et ladite distance inter-nodale approximative.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'étape d'obtention de l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son est effectuée à l'aide d'au moins un procédé appartenant au groupe comprenant :
    - des procédés de consultation d'au moins une base de données de vitesses du son ; et
    - des procédés de mesure directe à l'aide d'un dispositif de mesure et/ou d'un procédé acoustique.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'étape d'obtention de l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son est effectuée avec un procédé de mesure indirecte à l'aide d'un processus d'inversion (111-114) qui extrait l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son à partir d'au moins un signal acoustique distordu résultant de la transmission d'un signal acoustique entre un couple de noeuds par l'intermédiaire dudit canal acoustique subaquatique.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que ledit processus d'inversion extrait l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son à partir d'un signal acoustique distordu résultant de la transmission dudit signal acoustique entre ledit noeud émetteur et ledit noeud récepteur par l'intermédiaire dudit canal acoustique subaquatique.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins deux itérations dudit processus d'inversion sont exécutées en exploitant une diversité spatiale, à l'aide d'au moins deux couples de noeuds différents, et/ou une diversité temporelle, à l'aide d'un même couple de noeuds à au moins deux moments différents, chaque itération fournissant une estimation intermédiaire du profil de vitesse du son et en ce que l'étape d'obtention de l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son comprend une étape de combinaison des estimations intermédiaires du profil de vitesse du son afin d'obtenir une estimation finale du profil de vitesse du son.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que lesdits au moins deux couples de noeuds différents présentent des profondeurs différentes, un premier et un deuxième couple de noeuds étant définis comme présentant des profondeurs différentes si un noeud émetteur du premier couple ne présente pas la même profondeur qu'un noeud émetteur du deuxième couple et/ou si un noeud récepteur du premier couple ne présente pas la même profondeur qu'un noeud récepteur du deuxième couple.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'il est implémenté par ledit noeud récepteur ou un système centralisé.
  8. Produit de programme informatique caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend des instructions de code de programme permettant d'implémenter le procédé selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 7, lorsque ledit programme est exécuté sur un ordinateur ou un processeur.
  9. Support de stockage non transitoire lisible par un ordinateur contenant un programme qui, lorsqu'il est exécuté par un ordinateur ou un processeur, fait en sorte que l'ordinateur ou le processeur exécute le procédé selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 7.
  10. Dispositif (120) pour l'estimation d'une distance inter-nodale entre un noeud émetteur (A) et un noeud récepteur (B) appartenant à un réseau comprenant une pluralité de noeuds disposés le long d'antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées (20a-20e), ledit noeud émetteur (A) et ledit noeud récepteur (B) étant situés sur deux antennes linéaires acoustiques remorquées (20a-20e) différentes, un signal acoustique étant transmis du noeud émetteur vers le noeud récepteur par l'intermédiaire d'un canal acoustique subaquatique, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif comprend des moyens (121-123) pour l'estimation de la distance inter-nodale en fonction d'une estimation d'un profil de vitesse du son du canal acoustique subaquatique, ledit profil de vitesse du son dépendant de la profondeur, lesdits moyens d'estimation de la distance inter-nodale exécutant les étapes suivantes :
    - obtention (83, 84) d'un temps de déplacement du signal acoustique du noeud émetteur vers le noeud récepteur, de profondeurs d'immersion du noeud émetteur et du noeud récepteur, d'une vitesse du son à la profondeur d'immersion du noeud émetteur et de ladite estimation du profil de vitesse du son ;
    - détermination (84) d'une distance inter-nodale approximative (DAB) correspondant à une trajectoire en ligne droite entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur, en fonction du temps de déplacement et de la vitesse du son à la profondeur d'immersion du noeud émetteur ;
    - estimation (84) de la propagation du son entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur à l'aide d'un modèle de propagation du son et en connaissant les profondeurs d'immersion du noeud émetteur et du noeud récepteur, de la distance inter-nodale approximative et de l'estimation du profil de vitesse du son, ladite étape d'estimation de la propagation du son fournissant une longueur d'arc (LAB) d'une trajectoire en arc de cercle entre le noeud émetteur et le noeud récepteur ; et
    - détermination (86-87) d'une estimation de la distance inter-nodale (D'AB) en tant que différence entre ladite distance inter-nodale approximative et d'une erreur d'estimation de distance définie comme la différence entre ladite longueur d'arc et ladite distance inter-nodale approximative.
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